Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film

by Tony Pipolo

Book Overview

Perhaps the most highly regarded French filmmaker after Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson created a new kind of cinema through meticulous refinement of the form's grammatical and expressive possibilities. In thirteen features over a forty-year career, he held to an uncompromising moral vision and aesthetic rigor that remain unmatched. Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film is the first comprehensive study to give equal attention to the films, their literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195319796
• ISBN13: 9780195319798
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 407 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"